Michael Fassbender
Also Known As: マイケル・ファスベンダー, 마이클 패스벤더, مايكل فاسبندر, ไมเคิล ฟาสเบนเดอร์, 麥可·法斯賓達, Michael John Edward Fassbender, מייקל פסבנדר, 迈克尔·法斯宾德, مایکل فاسبندر, 麥可法斯賓達
Biography: Michael Fassbender (born April 2, 1977) is a German-Irish actor. He is the recipient of various accolades, including nominations for two Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. In 2020, he was listed at number nine on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. Born in Germany to a mother from Northern Ireland and a German father, Fassbender moved to Ireland at age two. He made his feature film debut in 300 (2006). Early roles include in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers (2001) and the Sky One fantasy drama Hex (2004–2005). Fassbender first came to prominence playing Bobby Sandsin Hunger (2008), for which he won a British Independent Film Award. Subsequent roles include the 2009 films Fish Tank and Inglourious Basterds and the 2011 films Jane Eyre and A Dangerous Method. He gained mainstream success for playing Erik Lehnsherr/MMagneto in X-Men: First Class (2011), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), and X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), and David 8 and Walter One in Prometheus (2012) and its sequel, Alien: Covenant (2017). For his portrayal of a sex addict in Steve McQueen's drama Shame (2011), Fassbender won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor and was nominated for the Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards. His performance as Edwin Epps in 12 Years a Slave (2013) earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also starred in The Counsellor (2013), Frank (2014), Macbeth, and Steve Jobs (both 2015). Fassbender received another Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of the title role in the latter. After a hiatus, he starred in the action thriller film The Killer (2023). Fassbender began competing in auto racing in 2017 with the Ferrari Challenge. As of 2023, he races in the European Le Mans Series, driving for Proton Competition. He married Swedish actress Alicia Vikander in 2017. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ioan Gruffudd, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany [now Germany]
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Birthday: April 02, 1977
Age: 48 years old
Gender: Male
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300
Overview: Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" is very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians; the battle is said to have inspired all of Greece to band together against the Persians, and helped usher in the world's first democracy.
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-07
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Hunger
Overview: The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-15
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Jonah Hex
Overview: Gunslinger Jonah Hex is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull, a former Confederate officer determined on unleashing hell on earth. Jonah not only secures freedom by accepting this task, he also gets revenge on the man who slayed his wife and child.
Genres: Action Western Drama Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-18
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Blood Creek
Overview: A man and his brother on a mission of revenge become trapped in a harrowing occult experiment dating back to the Third Reich.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-09
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Centurion
Overview: Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, Gorlacon.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-15
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Fish Tank
Overview: Fifteen-year-old Mia is in a constant state of war with her family and the world around her. When she meets her party-girl mother’s charming new boyfriend Connor, she is amazed to find he returns her attention, and believes he might help her start to make sense of her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-11
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Paris Paramount
Overview: Talented young writer/director, Porter Nash, and brilliant young producer, Reggie Pettipiece, get off to a fantastic Hollywood start: meeting, quickly falling in love, and creating successful films together. Soon enough, the romance fades and the two call it quits, but when another great career opportunity arises, they find themselves teamed up on a new project with high stakes and two emotionally volatile stars that may test their limits…
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
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Eden Lake
Overview: When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. Rowdiness quickly turns to rage as the teens terrorize the couple in unimaginable ways, and a weekend outing becomes a bloody battle for survival.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-12
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Hope
Overview: The largely Korean-language film will follow the residents of Hopo Port, where a mysterious discovery is made on the outskirts of the remote harbor town. Before long, the residents find themselves in a desperate fight for survival against something they have never encountered before.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ko
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Night Boat to Tangier
Overview: The movie follows Maurice and Charlie, a colourful pair of gangsters from Ireland. Drug-smugglers, partners with a long history of violence and intertwined personal lives, they’re back in southern Spain re-visiting old haunts, old flames and dangerous local criminals, searching for Maurice’s estranged daughter, Dilly.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
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Jane Eyre
Overview: After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-11
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Inglourious Basterds
Overview: In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-02
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A Dangerous Method
Overview: Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabina’s spell.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-30
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X-Men: First Class
Overview: Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-01
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Haywire
Overview: A black ops soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and left for dead.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-01
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Prometheus
Overview: A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-30
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Shame
Overview: Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up bitter memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's life, like his fragile mind, gets out of control.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-02
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12 Years a Slave
Overview: In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-18
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Assassin's Creed
Overview: Through a technology that unlocks the generic memories of his ancestor in 15th century Spain, Callum Lynch discovers he is a descendant of an ancient line of Assassins and amasses lethal skills to take on the oppressive Templar Order.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-21
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The Counselor
Overview: A lawyer finds himself in far over his head when he attempts to get involved in drug trafficking.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-25
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Alien: Covenant
Overview: The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but is actually a dark, dangerous world.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-09
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X-Men: Days of Future Past
Overview: The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-15
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Pitch Black Heist
Overview: Liam and Michael are professional safe crackers who meet on a simple job to relieve an office safe from its contents. The catch is a light activated alarm system impelling the men to embark on a pitch black heist.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-18
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Frank
Overview: A young wannabe musician discovers he has bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-09
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Slow West
Overview: In the Old West, a 17-year-old Scottish boy teams up with a mysterious gunman to find the woman with whom he is infatuated.
Genres: Western Drama Thriller Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-15
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Kneecap
Overview: When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed "low life scum" Naoise and Liam Óg, the needle drops on a hip-hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish, they lead a movement to save their mother tongue.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: ga
Release Date: 2024-08-02
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Macbeth
Overview: Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play about General Macbeth whose ambitious wife urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power of the throne over the sitting king, Duncan.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-22
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Trespass Against Us
Overview: Three generations of the rowdy Cutler family live as outlaws in some of Britain's richest countryside – hunting hares, ram-raiding stately homes, and taunting the police. Struggling to retain a way of life fast becoming extinct, Chad Cutler ends up caught between his father's archaic principles and trying to do right by his kids, whilst the full force of the law is finally catching up with him.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-14
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The Light Between Oceans
Overview: A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-02
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Goldfish
Overview: Two couples, in the same room, try to keep it together. The human couple fare differently to the pair of Goldfish in their fish tank. An artful piece exploring choice in life and love. The humour is derived from the wistful musings, in Cantonese, of the male fish and narrator.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-01
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Michael Fassbender: Road to Le Mans – The Film
Overview: Road to Le Mans - The Film tells the story of Michael Fassbender’s dream to race against the best teams and drivers in the world at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. This is the final chapter of the story following Michael’s journey to compete at the world’s ultimate motorsport event.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-17
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X-Men: Apocalypse
Overview: After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-18
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Steve Jobs
Overview: Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-09
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Black Bag
Overview: When intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband – also a legendary agent – faces the ultimate test of whether to be loyal to his marriage, or his country.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-12
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QT8: The First Eight
Overview: A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from his early days as a video club manager to the scandalous fall in disgrace of producer Harvey Weinstein. A story about how to shoot eight great movies and become an icon of modern pop culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-21
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The Snowman
Overview: Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-24
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Song to Song
Overview: In this modern love story set against the Austin, Texas music scene, two entangled couples — struggling songwriters Faye and BV, and music mogul Cook and the waitress whom he ensnares — chase success through a rock ‘n’ roll landscape of seduction and betrayal.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-17
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Entering Hades
Overview: “Entering Hades” is about Jack Unterweger, a celebrated Austrian journalist and best-selling author who led a double life investigating murders by day and killing by night – amassing a body count of 11 people across multiple continents.
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Original Language: en
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Children of the Atom - Filming X-Men: First Class
Overview: An eight-part behind-the-scenes featurette, charting the film from pre-production through post-production, including visual effects techniques and cataloguing “X-Men” transformations through prosthetic make up and costume design
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-09
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Dark Phoenix
Overview: The X-Men face their most formidable and powerful foe when one of their own, Jean Grey, starts to spiral out of control. During a rescue mission in outer space, Jean is nearly killed when she's hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she returns home, this force not only makes her infinitely more powerful, but far more unstable. The X-Men must now band together to save her soul and battle aliens that want to use Grey's new abilities to rule the galaxy.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-05
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Angel
Overview: Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her tasteless romances hit the best seller lists. Her life changes in unexpected ways when she encounters an aristocratic brother and sister, both of whom have cultural ambitions, and both of whom fall in love with her.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-17
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Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
Overview: The corpse of a shabbily dressed young woman has been discovered in the mud flats of the Thames at low tide. Police assume she's a prostitute, but Dr. Watson suspects something more and goes to his old friend Holmes, now retired and at very loose ends.
Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-26
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Our Hidden Lives
Overview: Based on the best-selling book by award-winning writer Simon Garfield, four stories from Britain's 'lost decade' (1945 - 1955) are presented from the diaries of four very distinct people. In his book, Garfield selected some of the most expressive diarists, and focused on the post-war years giving a vivid portrait of how Britain coped in the post-war years and how little, or how much, attitudes have changed over the past 60 years. The stories touch on homosexuality, single women making their way in life post-war and a housewife handling the less than welcome return of her husband.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-03
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The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus
Overview: An in-depth documentary on the making of Ridley Scott's "Prometheus," featuring cast and crew interviews, outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage. Released on the 4-disc Collector's Edition Blu-ray set.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-11
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Things I Notice, Things You See
Overview: The Stage, a launderette. Tom and Maggie meet and flirt, all because of a red thong.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-01
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Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor'
Overview: A 13-segment documentary examining production aspects of "The Counselor."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-11
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Take Flight
Overview: 2015's best actors lift off in a series of tributes to the ultimate Hollywood magic trick.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-10
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1
Overview: Set in the golden era of Grand Prix Racing '1' tells the story of a generation of charismatic drivers who raced on the edge, risking their lives during Formula 1's deadliest period, and the men who stood up and changed the sport forever.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-30
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Carla
Overview: The meeting of the quiet Helen North and the charismatic Carla on a beautiful Greek island leads to tragic consequences.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-15
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A Bear Named Winnie
Overview: Based on the true story of a Canadian soldier, enroute to World War I from Winnipeg, who adopts an orphaned bear cub at White River Ontario. It is namned Winnie (for Winnipeg) and eventually ends up at the London Zoo where it became the inspiration for A.A.Milne's Winnie The Pooh stories.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-12
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Man on a Motorcycle
Overview: Michael Fassbender stars in this 'day in the life' of a London motorcycle courier at breaking point in his profession and his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-26
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Wedding Belles
Overview: A darkly humorous look at the lives and loves of four modern women, each with their own remarkable, intriguing and often tragic stories.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-29
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Kung Fury 2
Overview: 1985. Miami is kept safe under the watchful eye of Kung Fury and his Thundercops, the ultimate police force assembled from across history to defeat the villainous Kung Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler. After the tragic death of a Thundercop sees the group disband, a mysterious villain emerges from the shadows to aid in the Fuhrer's quest to attain the ultimate weapon. Kung Fury must travel through space and time to save his friends, defend the prestigious Miami Kung Fu Academy and defeat evil once and for all.
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
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SLOW WEST in SUPER EIGHT
Overview: Footage from the making of the film 'Slow West'
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-02
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Next Goal Wins
Overview: Dutch coach Thomas Rongen attempts the nearly impossible task of turning the American Samoa soccer team from perennial losers into winners.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-16
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Four Photographic Sonatas Starring Michael Fassbender
Overview: Four-part short starring Irish actor Michael Fassbender.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-16
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The Killer
Overview: After a fateful miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-25
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Gina Carano in Training
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-01
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X-Men: First Class 35mm Special
Overview: TV special about the making of "X-Men: First Class".
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-05
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Prologue: The Crossing
Overview: The Crossing, an official prologue short to Alien: Covenant, reveals what happened to crew members Dr. Elizabeth Shaw and the synthetic David after the events of Prometheus. Set aboard an abandoned Engineer vessel, Dr. Shaw repairs David as they continue their search for humanity’s creators.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-26
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Meet Walter
Overview: Walter is the world’s most advanced synthetic companion, designed to help you achieve a better human experience. Each model is individually calibrated to serve its owner’s unique set of needs and preferences.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-10
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Project Prometheus: Mission
Overview: Project Prometheus: Mission is a 2012 short film. Created as part of the viral marketing campaign for Prometheus and to promote the interactive Project Prometheus Training Center on the film's official website, the short features Weyland Corp employee Andrea Bishop (a character who does not appear in Prometheus itself) discussing the Prometheus mission and its goals. Project Prometheus: Mission was the final Prometheus short film to be released before the movie.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-30
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Happy Birthday David
Overview: An introduction to the 8th generation android, David, who explains what he thinks about and what makes him sad.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-17
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Transmission
Overview: A collection of pre-mission interviews with the crew of the Prometheus spacecraft.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-06
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Advent
Overview: Advent is a sequel to Alien: Covenant in which David sends a transmission from the Covenant to Weyland-Yutani on Earth, elaborating upon the genetic experimentation he has been conducting on Planet 4.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-15
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Phobos
Overview: A darkly twisted psychological drama, ‘Phobos’ is a short film set before the events of ‘Alien: Covenant’. The film follows the crew of the ill-fated colony ship Covenant, on what amounts to a highly unorthodox job ‘interview’ for their upcoming mission, masterminded by their employer, the Weyland Yutani Corporation.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-15
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Prologue: Last Supper
Overview: The official prologue to Alien: Covenant introduces the crew of the mission as they gather for a final meal before entering cryosleep. Set aboard the Covenant, a colonization ship on its way to a remote planet to form a new human settlement, the main crew (all couples) and their android, Walter, enjoy their final meal together before cryosleep.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-22
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